UcLan’s £60m student centre tops out

Preston City Council has approved the adoption of the Stoneygate masterplan, and is targeting the delivery of 1,600 homes across 61 acres in the city as part of a 15-year regeneration plan.

Preston City Council and Buttress Architects have released concept designs for the £10m overhaul of the Harris Museum on Market Square.

Plans to redevelop a five-storey HM Revenue & Customs office in the city centre into 70 flats were given the green light on Wednesday.

The football club has been given the go-ahead for work at its Dodney Drive training ground in Lea, providing an interim solution for players who still have "a number of years" to wait for a replacement facility to be built at Ingol Golf Course.

The council has granted planning consent to a sloped 21-storey residential block containing 80 apartments in the city centre, and a redevelopment of a derelict former orphanage.

A sloped 21-storey residential scheme reminiscent of Manchester's Urbis, and a redevelopment of a listed site criticised for its "violently different" architecture, are due to be approved in Preston.

More than 200 homes across three developments in Preston have received consent, including an overhaul of a city centre pub, a chapel and parish hall for Broughton, and a last-minute approval in Fulwood.

A consultation over the future of Preston city centre has opened, with the public urged to give feedback on proposals including 1,600 homes in Stoneygate as part of a 15-year regeneration plan. 

A joint venture between HBD and Barnfield Developments has submitted plans for its 18-acre development, known as East, off Junction 31A of the M6 in Preston.